Nov 21 Sunday It finally cleared up partially and the humid damp weather dissipated so we picked up mom and pop and drove to Lil & Harry's. We all played ping pong.
Nov 22 Eugene returned to school. He had his first failure of his school career - in S.T.L. He got Good in Spanish & Social Studies & Physics, Very Good in Math & English. Sylvia's lowest grades were 70s in Science & Fine Arts.
Nov 23 Vishinsky is dead at 70. Mildred W. drove Lillian to the Cross County Shopping Center where they shopped around. They found a summons for parking too near a hydrant on the car.
Nov 24 Communist China gave out sentences ranging from four years to life to thirteen Americans who had been shot down over Chinese territory during the Korean War, for espionage. William Remington, former State Dep't Aide who is serving a three year term for perjury in denying he passed secret gov't data to a Russian spy ring, was slugged by a fellow prisoner and has died at 36.
Nov 25 We were invited by Molly & Sam for turkey but as Seth had a cold we all drove out to Fairlawn and had dinner there. Seth had a fine time teasing Sylvia and Eugene as they were reading. Molly had a back ache. Israel Amter is dead at 73.
Eugene drew "Mama's Bank Account" Kathryn Forbes, "Childhoods End" A. C. Clarke, "Beachheads in Space" A Derleth, "Don Camillo and his Flock" G Guareschi, "Crooks Tour" Bruno Fischer.
Sylvia drew "The Mystery of the Thirteenth Floor" D. Geis.
Dad did put blank lines in the entry, perhaps to fill out the page, because pages in the diary are out of order here; Dad turned two pages in the notebook when entering 11/24. He apparently noted it, finished that page, and then continued on the previous (blank) page. So the diary entries in the notebook are in the order: 11/21 Sunday, 11/22, 11/23, 11/26, 11/27, 11/28, 11/29, 11/30, 12/1 Sunday, 12/2, 12/3, 11/24, 11/25, 12/4, etc. I have put them back in chronological order.
Nov 26 Sylvia and Norma played miniature golf. Eugene went to the I.B.M. downtown with the Math Society to see the IBM 701 - an electronic calculator, used the electric typewriters saw the electric calculating machine. A 2 year contract was signed by the I.L.A. providing for elimination of the shape-up, union shop, no strike, no lockout, 17¢ hourly package raise. Anti-Semitism is gaining in Germany again. Rev. Dr Henry Sloane Coffin is dead at 77.
At IBM, the 701 was an electronic computer, and we got to use the electric keypunch machines, which was great fun.
Nov 27 We tried to get wood again for Eugene - this time plywood but the lumber yards were closed. We got a rear view mirror $3.29, shopped at Krum's, Pelham then took Sylvia to Joan Luskin's birthday party. She brought some stationery. Robert Edmond Jones is dead at 67 and Bill Doak at 63.
Very strange that you failed STL since a few years later you essentially built my STL project (a telescope I think) and I'm pretty sure I got a respectable grade for it.
ReplyDeleteAnd I did eventually build my equatorial telescope mounting in STL. I think, although I don't really remember, that the failure is connected to the diary entries about buying wood for me; it was for my telescope mounting, and I probably got a failure because it wasn't done (or started?)
ReplyDeleteNow I'm,thinking it may have been a microscope that you helped me build for STL.
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